Shots of Weston-super-Mare in the 1960s that will take you back in time

Weston Decorators' store in June 1965. (Image: Archant)

The scene at the official opening of the Kings of Wessex in Cheddar. It is glimpsed from the ruins of the old chapel in october 1965. (Image: Archant)

A path in Grove Park becomes a sleigh-run for these youngsters after the snowfall. A one-day blizzard brought chaos to the West Country in the middle of the Christmas holiday in 1964. (Image: Archant)

Grove Park in Weston-super-Mare in May 1965, on a sunny day. (Image: Archant)

Christmas lights in Weston-super-Mare in November 1964. (Image: Archant)

Winter weather hit Weston in January 1966, this scene is from Uphill. (Image: Archant)

A more than usually friendly swan is here seen taking tit-bits from three-year-old Elizabeth Manning in Weston-super-Mare in 1966. (Image: Archant)

Rough seas pound over Knightstone and the Marine Lake breakwater during feirce storms in April 1966. (Image: Archant)

Waiting for the 105 bus in Worle are Jane Bartlett and Keith Gullick in this picture from May 1966. (Image: Archant)

It was a cold and frosty February morning in 1965 when these Birnbeck Pier employees walk the planks. (Image: Archant)

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A new rescue boat, designed by the RNLI to enable help to be quickly given to yachtsmen in distress, was introduced in May 1966. (Image: Archant)

What the life-saving RNLI crews would have seen when they prepared to launch a lifeboat in the 1960s. (Image: Archant)

The Winter Gardens has always been a popular spot in Weston-super-Mare. Here it is in July 1965. (Image: Archant)

Some of the nurses at the nurses' annual prizegiving in 1966. (Image: Archant)

Nurses at Weston-super-Mare General Hospital's awards. (Image: Archant)

Weston beach had thousands of visitors during a hot summer in 1966. (Image: Archant)

Some of the many thousands of visitors who flocked into Weston-super-Mare on spring bank holiday in 1967. (Image: Archant)

The RSPCA Donkey show held on Weston Beach in 1967. (Image: Archant)

Weston's busy beach in 1967. (Image: Archant)

A busy weekend in Weston-super-Mare in 1967. (Image: Archant)

The £2 million four level interchange between the M4 and M5 at Almondsbury which the Queen inspected when she opened the Severn Bridge. (Image: Archant)

A picture when work demolishing old buildings in Lower Church Road had begun to make way for the construction of Weston-super-Mare's £550,000 eight-storey Technical College. (Image: Archant)

St John's School closed in 1964 after a life of 118 years to make way for the college development. (Image: Archant)

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The architect's sketch of Weston's Technical College, now known as Knightstone Campus. (Image: Archant)

Autumn in Ashcombe Park in October 1966. (Image: Archant)

Brighter Homes on the corner of Meadow Street, Regent Street and High Street, one of a dozen properties demolised to make way for road improvements. (Image: Archant)

The Boxing Day meet of the Banwell Foxhounds drew a large crowd outside the Woodborough Hotel, Winscombe in 1966. (Image: Archant)

The former Abbey National Building Society office in High Street, Weston-super-Mare. (Image: Archant)

Scouts and cubs of the Weston-super-Mare continue to parade through the town each year on St George's Day. (Image: Archant)

Classes in Medan rhythmic movement, as a means of keeping fit were held weekly at Uphill in 1967. (Image: Archant)

Wreckage of the helicopter which crashed within 30 yards of the Long Cross housing estate at Felton. Three Army personnel died. (Image: Archant)

Some of these classic cars may still be displayed in Weston during vintage events. (Image: Archant)

Hundreds of holiday-makers and residents thronged to the Beach Lawns for Weston-super-Mare Diary Festival in 1967. (Image: Archant)

New bigger single-deck buses, which carried more passengers, were launched in Weston-super-Mare in August 1967. (Image: Archant)

The parade of puddings at East Brent Harvest Home in 1967, a tradition still taking place in 2017. (Image: Archant)

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